Improvement in fruit-drying frames



0. GARDNER. 4

Fruit-Frame.

No 50,113. Patented Sept. 26, 186-5.

i .5 A l Egg 0 0 1% go o I N.FEI'ERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPNER WASHINGTON, Dr C O. GARDNER, OF FREEDOM, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN FRUIT-DRYING FRAMES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 50,113, dated September 26, 1865.

To all whom it may concern: the cords, forming shelves on which the fruit Be it known that I, O. GARDNER, of Freecan be spread that is to be dried unstrung. dom, in the county of Portage and State of I represents braces that are pivoted at c to Ohio, have invented certain new and useful arms 0, and hung, as the arms are, on wires at- Improvements in Fruit-Frames; and I do heretached to a hub. The hub to which the braces by declare that the following is at'ull and comare hung is not stationary, as the rest of the plete description of the construction and operahubs on the standard, but moves up and down tion of the same, reference being had to the on it as the frame opens or closes, being down accompanying drawings, making a part of this when the frame is open, as seen in Fig. 1, and specification, in which up when closed, as at Fig. 2. These braces aid Figure l is a front elevation with the frame in opening and closing the frame and also in open. Fig. 2 is a front elevation with the flame supporting the slats B. closed. The frame can be raised or lowered, as de Like letters of reference denote like parts in sired, by turning the thumb-screw c, and can the several views. also be made to revolve in the foot-piece.

Myimprovement relates toat'rnit-frame, 850., This frame may be applied to other purposes, as hereinafter described. as to drying clothes, In the drawings, A represents the standard; YVhat I claim as my improvement, and de A, the foot-piece or base that supports the sire to secure by Letters Patent, isframe. On this standard are hubs D, to which I The adjustable standard A, hubs D, wires (1,

are hung arms O by means of wires (1 that pass braces I, and arms 0, when especiallyarranged entirely round the hub in agroove, which forms and operating conjointly as and for the pura hinge or pivot for said arms. In these hubs pose set forth. are slots a, which allows the arms to fold up and down. To these arms are pivoted slats B GARDNER which they support and keep in place. Fast IVitnesses:

LYMAN BRYANT, HARRIET BRYANT.

ened to the slats B are cords B, on which the fruit is hung to be dried. Slats can be laid on 

